ELLSWORTH, P. T. The International Economy: Its Structure and Operation. Pp. xxi, 922. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. $5.50

• Author: Theodore J. Kreps
• DOI: 10.1177/000271625127400164
• Published date: 01 March 1951
• Date: 01 March 1951
• Subject Matter: Articles

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appearance of this book is an event in ag-
it inspire many another author to take the
ricultural economics.
cue and add another volume on the rural
The author was ably assisted during the
economy of the forty-two other states
twenty years in which the book grew by a
which are not yet treated, but the treat-
staff of research assistants. With the co-
ment of which this initial volume has
operation of federal and state agencies he
brought into the scope of feasibility.
has succeeded in taking an exhaustive in-
The Harvard University Press is to be
ventory of the resources of the region, par-
commended on the excellent printing job
ticularly the agricultural ones, of the vari-
and the remarkable legibility of all tables
ous forms of their utilization, their man-
and charts.
agement, productivity, value, and service to
KARL BRANDT
the people. More than that, he lays bare
Food Research Institute
the functional performance of the rural
Stanford University
economy for longer periods up to the pres-
ent.
This is methodologically a first-rate
ELLSWORTH, P. T.
The International
achievement and a laboratory demonstra-
Economy: Its Structure and Operation.
tion worth in itself the attention of the
Pp. xxi, 922. New York: The Macmil-
profession. No pertinent question which
lan Company, 1950. $5.50.
an agricultural economist might ask remains
In this volume Dr. Ellsworth has not
untouched, and most of them are answered.
merely brought up to date, expanded and
This comprises a painstaking analysis of all
clarified the theoretical analysis of his
phases of the socioeconomic geography as
earlier book, International Economics; he
well as the farm management and market-
has put flesh on the dry bones of theory.
ing analysis of dairy and poultry farming,
History, description, statistical verification,
potato, tobacco, fruit, and vegetable farm-
and mathematical analysis are combined
ing, general family living farming, and the
with economic reasoning into a...